Dyeing machine



F. HINNEKENS DYEING MACHINE June 3, 1930.

, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed Aug. 1

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DYEING MACHINE Filed Aug. 14, 1925 2 sheets-sheet 2 INVENTOI? wlrlysss Patented June 3, 1 930 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE FLORENT HINNEKENS, OF IPATERSON, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR '.l.0 VAN VLLANDEREN .MAGEINE' COMPANY, OF

JERSEY PATTERSON, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW mmme MACHINE I Application filed August 14, 1925. Serial No. 50364;,

t i This invention relates to that class of dyeing or equivalent machines in which the material to be treated is placed in a casing containing the liquid and agitated by rotary motion around a horizontal axis and back and forth. My invention has two principal objects, one, to provide improved automatic means for obtaining the back and forth rotary motion, and the other, to provide for such supporting of f the rotated element that, as inthe case where access to the material being treated from time to time must be had, said element may be elevated-at such times so as to disestablish the drivin connection. In t e drawing-- I Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the improved machine; I

Fig. 2 is a side elevation, partly in section;

and Fi 3 is a diagram of electrical circuits whic may be used when the source of power is an electric motor. The said element is here represented by the horizontal rotary shaft 1 WhlCh may carry so as to rotate therewith in the usual way a reel on which to suspend the material being treated and contained in the casing or tank 2, which is fra'gmentarily shown in Fig. 2 by broken lines, the reel itself being not shown. 3 is a stand which affords bearings at 3 for the horizontal main shaft 4 equipped between the bearings with a worm 4. With this worm engage the teeth of the worm-wheel 5 which is arranged over the worm and fixed on shaft 1, forming part of said element. For disestablishing the connection between the worm and worm-wheel the shaft 1 is supported as follows:

At the end portion of said shaft adjoining theworm-wheel is a bearing 6 formedwith a artly spherical portion 6 which in effect fbrmsthe ball of a ball-and-socket joint of which the socket is afforded by the interiorly 4 spherical upstanding part .7 of the head of a screw 8' which is swivelled in abearing .9, This bearinghas adepending. flange 10 which is vertically slotted as shown by dotted lines into an upstanding part 12 of the stan the medium, of the screw 8 the bearing shaft 16 having a worm 165m mesh. with the mg the bearing at 6 ofthe ball-and-socket tion of the shaft remote from the worm-wheel serves as 'a housing in Fig. 1 to receive clamping screws 11 tapiei- 7 may be held fast in the position to which 1t is elevated. At the time saidelement is being driven the bearing has solid support on the top of part 12, i 4 q The part 12 is essentially a box-formation on the back of the stand 3, having a limited opening 12 at the back and bottom. At its base it affords support for a-ball-bearing .13 on which rests a nut 14 which is penetrated and engaged by the threads of the screw 8 and is exteriorly ormed as a worm-wheel. In horizontally alined bearings 15 rojecting from the rear of the box isjournale a wormworm of the nut. This has a hand-wheel 17 i by turning which and consequently the screw 8 up and down'movement'of the mentioned element may be effected. The object in formtype is to allow the shaft '1 to assume angular relation to the axis of part 7 in the up and down movement effected through the screw and nut, it being understood that the endpor- 5-has a hearing, as 18, affording a fulcrum- .support therefor, as by being somewhat free to articulate therein The box-formation 12 for the nut worm-wheel and worm 16. To house the engaging portions of worm 4 and worm-wheel 5 the stand has a well 19 open at the top and backed by the box-formation;

The main shaft 4 is geared with a driving shaft 22 j ournaled in stand 1 and adapted to be rotated alternately in opposite directions, the gearing being the worm-wheel '24 and worm 25. Shaft 22 is connected to rotate with the shaft 20 of an electric motor M bya suitable coupling 23. ofthe driving shaft first in one andthen in the other direction, alternately, the motor isreversed.- Any circuit arrangement including the motor maybe used for accomplishing this, and Fig. 3 will serve as an example, in

which 26 is a circuit containin the enerator G for energizing the motoran a pole changer 27 whose bar 27 may form the common armature of two electro-magnets 28,

a and 29 is a circuit havingan energysourpe 30 m0 For olotaining rotation I shift the pole-changer and so cause reversing a trolling devices 36 respectively arranged over roller 43, the end of '42 and they project of the motor.

To the front vertical web 33 of the stand 3 is bolted the bracket 34 having a horizontal platform 35. casings 32 guide vertically a pair of conthe buttons and cushioned in their downward movement by s rings 37 interposed between the casings an collars 36' on said devices. Said devices yieldingly oppose rocking in either direction of an actuator itself includ ing portions cushioned against movement in either direction of the rocking relatively to each other and constructed as follows: The platform 35 has a front ed a rearwardly' projecting stub-shaft 39.

On this is fulcrumed between its ends the lever 40 having rollers 41 at its ends to bear on saiddevices; also the upstanding lever 42 which projects into the path of aneccentric abutment on worm-wheel 5 'afiorded by the the lever being doublebeveled to receive the contact of the abutment. Lever 40 forms one and lever 42 the other of the said portions of the rocking actuator; Rods 44 are pivoted to the end of the lever freely through'holes in bosses 45 swivelled in the ends of lever 40, and between the bosses and collars 46 on the rods are compression springs 47 Assume the intergeared parts 1-5, 4 and 22 to be a rotary system revoluble back and forth" and having the motor as its rotary.

This platform and the button-' boss 38' in which is levers and opposm jectin into the path of rotary movement of said a utment and having its rocking in one direction yieldingly opposed by one and in the other direction by the other of saiddev1ces.

2. In combination, with a rotary system revoluble back and forth and having a rotary prime mover and an eccentric moving abutment, means to reverse the direction of rotation of the prime mover including a pair of cushioned controlling devices, and a rocking actuator for the controlling devices having an impact-receiving portion arranged in the path ofrotary movement of said abut ment and a portion whose rocking is yieldingly o posed by saiddevices, said portions being e astically connected with each other and the impact-receiving portion being yieldable relatively to the other portion in each direction of rocking said structure. V

3. In combination, with a rotary system revoluble back and forth and having a rotary prime mover and an eccentric moving abut ment, means to reverse the direction of rotation of the prime mover includin a pair of cushioned controlling devices, an a rocking actuator for the, controlling devices including an impact-receiving rocking lever arranged in the path of movement of said abutment, another rocking lever whose rocking is yieldingly opposed by said devices, and cushioned means interposed between the rocking of the first lever independently of t e second lever.

In testimon whereof I afiix 111 Si ature. ZLORENT IHNN EIENS.

prime mover. Each time the abutment enone of the devices 36; this in turn will depress the corresponding button and cause to be energized the corresponding magnet which will lever 42 of the rocking structure the.

shift the pole-changer and so reverse the motor andsaid system. If for any reason the nevertheless yield to the pressure of the abutment until the latter passes there is thus ro- V1S1011'f01 avoiding injury to the mac e possible in the event that the controlling cirwhatIcaimand cut 29' is not closed and especially in view of thglponderous nature of the rotary qstem.

avin thus fully described my invention desire to secure by Letters Patent is: 1 I 1. In combination, with a rotary system revoluble backandforthand having a rotary reversing should not ensue the lever 42 can prime mover and an eccentric moving abutment, means to reverse the direction of rotation of the prime mover including a pair of cushioned controlling devices, and

a rockmgactuator for the controlling devices 

